Whitehouse hopeful Mitt Romney has received the formal backing of the National Rifle Association. Source: AAP <\/p>\n
REPUBLICAN US presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced that he has received the formal backing of the National Rifle Association (NRA). <\/p>\n
Romney's campaign made the announcement on Thursday in a press release issued by his campaign office in Boston timed to coincide with a campaign rally in Virginia. <\/p>\n
The release quoted Romney as saying he would do everything in his power as president to defend and protect the right of all law-abiding Americans to bear arms. <\/p>\n
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution \"protects a basic and fundamental individual right to bear arms,\" said Romney. <\/p>\n
\"And it is the NRA that protects the Second Amendment.\" <\/p>\n
Romney's running mate, Senator Paul Ryan, is also quoted in the news release, saying the Second Amendment is essential to the functioning of a free society. <\/p>\n
\"As a lifelong hunter, I am a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights,\" said Ryan. <\/p>\n
\"Not only do millions of Americans own firearms, but recreational hunting and shooting adds billions to our economy every year and supports thousands of jobs.\" <\/p>\n
NRA Political Victory Fund chair Chris Cox said it was important to have \"a friend of our Second Amendment freedoms and hunting heritage in the White House\". <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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